Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweigwas an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 November 1881
CountryAustria
voice today too-much
I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.
soul stuff firsts
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
littles world vindictive
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
numbers errors important
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.
wave collapse
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
fleeting moments reason
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
organization ideas brain
The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.
chaos authority tyranny
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.
truth silence criminals
Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent....
eye feelings rooms
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
spiritual firsts emotion
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
terrible humans human-beings
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
enthusiasm convince convinced
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
hands gossip tongue
Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.